Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Golden Goose, sentence 55
Then Dummling for the third time asked for his bride; but the king again sought a way out, and ordered a ship which could sail on land and on water.
Who acts: Dummling, king, ship · What happens: ask, seek out, order, sail · To what, where: way, ship, land
This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dummling, king, ship), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 asked | advmod |
| 2 | Dummling | Dummling | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Dummling | nmod |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 bride | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sought | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 sought | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 sought | advmod |
| 16 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 way | det |
| 18 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sought | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 sought | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ordered | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ordered | cc |
| 22 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 ship | det |
| 24 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ordered | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sail | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 sail | aux |
| 27 | sail | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 ship | acl:relcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 land | case |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sail | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 water | cc |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 water | case |
| 32 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 land | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Dummling for the third time | then | for Dummling's bride | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | seek out | past | the king | a way | again | out property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||
| 3 | order | past | a ship | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sail | could | a ship | land and water | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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